baby peppers and cute cats
told you i had a pepper! woo! guess i will have to keep watering these plants to nurture their little projects. of course, that’s hard to do when there’s a cat hogging the hose:
berryessa, rock climbing, and cuteness
laura and i went swimming at lake berryessa last week.
but first she showed me the glory hole, which is apparently proof that davis is the hellmouth, or something:
looks like someone lost their pants.
it was my first time trying out a swim cap, as i’d just had my expensive hair dying job.
laura was far more elegant than i in poise and posture, but i had to cut off her leg in this picture.
but hey, she doesn’t look like a sexy sea creature!
ken and i tried out the rocknasium for the first time and had a lot of n00b fun!
i’m not as good at pretending to fall.
quite possibly the cutest pigture i’ve ever taken. gidget really seems to calm stark down. it must be the presence of a huge, rumbly, furry, warm object that isn’t trying to eat her. 🙂
they’re just really cute when they stretch out and sleep.
sometimes i’m pretty sure only 2 people read this
but here are some nice pictures anyway.
squaw valley is a really beautiful place.
a little photoshoppy exaggeration; the skiing wasn’t this doomful.
i’ve started taking the pigs out in a pair, now that i’ve gotten more used to them and they’ve gotten more used to me (they still hate me though).
they do this a lot though. that’s stark hiding under scully as best she can.
and the cat came back…
family photo op!
the buddha could have been holding pigs instead of his own belly.
ken bonds with them too, of course 🙂
they’ve gotten way into certain vegetables, which makes me (and them) happy. they’re my first tier compost heap. stark goes insane for carrots and scully loves banana and seems very happy with spinach. and as you can see, they both like to eat melon. at the same time.
photo op ended when i scared them. this is a common scene here.
now that gidget is on summer vacation, she does more than just lie around and annoy me, you know:
she is also into literature. the book she’s reading now is called “achieving human understanding.”
and then there’s yoga.
and finally, patrolling the backyard.
the wisteria flowers are gone (along with the lovely scent and all the bees), but here’s a few shots of them i managed to get.
guinea pig pics (and names!)
so we decided to go with stark for the freaky one, and scully for the hardheaded rational one. 🙂 yes, they’re geeky names. could have been geekier though.
their personalities are evolving pretty quickly. and they’re quickly getting used to us. scully barely struggles when i pick her up. stark doesn’t shudder nonstop on my lap. both of them now eat hay off my lap. and although i found out today both of them HATEHATEHATE the sound of my keyboard, they don’t mind the sound of the digicam. soooo… pics on page 2, of the pigs, with a special surprise guest. XD
this is stark. notice the wild look in her eye.
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this is scully. she has a little chunk of her left ear missing, for whatever reason. she’s also bigger (ken scoffs but i really do think she is)
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then gidget came to investigate.
i think gidget was most put out at the notion of having to share a lap. she showed absolutely no interest in scully save for a few halfhearted sniffs. 🙂 scully wasn’t shuddering at all that i could tell. yay for interspecies love!
